Previous episodes of the Rob Simmons saga can be found here.

It is no accident that grieving mothers of war veterans like Cindy Sheehan cannot get an audience with the President. To do that she would have to be one of an in-crowd whose profile is becoming increasingly public and embarassing. In a new book, Tempting Faith by David Kuo, the author describes the speediest route to audiences with the White House staff and President:

"In 2002, Kuo says the office decided to "hold roundtable events for threatened incumbents with faith and community leaders … using the aura of our White House power to get a diverse group of faith and community leaders to a 'nonpartisan' event discussing how best to help poor people in their area."

White House Political Affairs director Ken Mehlman "loved the idea and gave us our marching orders. There were twenty targets." Including Saxby Chambliss in Georgia and John Shimkus in Illinois.

Mehlman devised a cover-up for the operation. He told Kuo, "It can't come from the campaigns. That would make it look too political. It needs to come from the congressional offices. We'll take care of that by having our guys call the office to request the visit."

Kuo explains, "this approach inoculated us against accusations that we were using religion and religious leaders to promote specific candidates."

Those roundtables were a hit. Republicans won 19 of those 20 races. 76 percent of religious conservatives voted for Chambliss over decorated war hero Max Cleland."

This is part three.  Part two is here.

Last week the Courtney campaign asked that inappropriate internet campaign attack ads be removed.  Last week, began a sequence of local and national school shootings and bomb threats that leave the nation grieving and searching for answers.

Inside the Washington beltway, America has learned the depths of depravity that Republicans have exercised while praising Jesus, waving the American flag, and systematically dismantling the Constitution, Geneva Conventions, and Habeas Corpus.

And yet, shocking as Representative Foley's cyber-stalking of young boys may be, following the trail of Representative Rob Simmons' supporters into the shadows of violent gaming sites is equally disturbing and disorienting.  As I write this, a CNN news story features a misguided crusader claiming that Harry Potter books are harmful to young people.

In part one, I discover dormant political material from hell.

Do Something!

The voice on the other end of the phone is emphatic, "Why don't you Democrats DO SOMETHING! I'm a World War II vet and I think you're going to raise taxes."

He sounds like my father who died a few years ago. He was a World War II vet as well - Iwo Jima and the Pacific theatre. He never, ever spoke about the war. Not once in memory. But I saw the military books he hid away in a basement room on a higher shelf. I shouldn't have opened them.

Pages were filled with piles of dead bodies. I learned a lot about war in those pages. What can anyone talk about. How do you explain, justify, or account for what happens in war. There's nothing to say. I don't want to talk about it either.

My dad, like his fellow brothers and sisters came home from war and created the most successful, progressive, Democratic country on earth. A thriving middle class economic engine fueled employment, health, and social services unparalleled anywhere in a country this size. Today, they've been brainwashed to turn their backs on their own success. American Dream? What American Dream?

"We're not going to raise your taxes."

"Look I HATE THESE PEOPLE. I don't like what Bush is doing either. But you Democrats don't do anything about it! Why don't you DO SOMETHING!"

"We're trying, sir. We're all trying. Give Joe the benefit of your doubt. Thanks."

Later, I click on the youtube video smearing Courtney. There's that pile of bodies again. I think of the indignity of dying like that, naked, anonymous, humiliated - no final prayer. Whoever CT-CIA is, they have no idea how gruesome or outrageous the use of these pictures is. They have to come down. The voice of the dead would scream out to anyone, "How dare you use this shame for personal gain."

The Rob Simmons campaign in the second district of CT was called out by the Joe Courtney campaign. A fellow by the name of Thomas Misenti, a Rob Simmons insider, was traced to being the source of some unbelievably inappropriate campaign slander.

In one instance, a youtube video that can be seen in part in this news report posted on the Courtney site, shows apocalyptic images from [somebody's] Holocaust veiling an implied threat that voting for Courtney would somehow contribute to such a scenario. The video played out numerous other equally extreme and absurd assertions. That video's credit linked to this blogsite which boasted the video as well as a blog of screeds that come from the same source.

Since the Courtney campaign complained the site has been sanitized - if that's what you call sanitization. Gone are the Soviet-inspired propaganda gif pictures showing hammers and sickle posters proclaiming "Vote for Courtney" or a picture of Joe taken from a Courtney commercial with "F"*"ck Courtney" knife carving in the footer. There was more "free speech".